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Remotely operated vehicles have only occasionally captured brief footage of frilled sharks in situ.
Because frilled sharks dwell at great depths, scientists rarely observe them alive in their natural habitat. Much of the anatomical and dietary data available comes from specimens unintentionally caught in deep-sea fishing operations.
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For a vertebrate reaching over two meters to remain behaviorally mysterious illustrates how inaccessible the deep ocean remains. Even in the era of satellites and submersibles, direct observation is limited.
This reliance on bycatch data highlights both the fragility and obscurity of deep-sea ecosystems. Human activity often encounters species before science fully understands them.
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